GET

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The HTTP GET method requests a representation of the specified resource. Requests using GET should only be used to request data (they shouldn't include data).

Note: Sending body/payload in a GET request may cause some existing implementations to reject the request — while not prohibited by the specification, the semantics are undefined. It is better to just avoid sending payloads in GET requests.

Request has body No
Successful response has body Yes
Safe Yes
Idempotent Yes
Cacheable Yes
Allowed in HTML forms Yes

Syntax

http
GET /index.html

Specifications

Specification
HTTP Semantics
# GET

Browser compatibility

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See also